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Through decades of work, World Vision has learned that children and youth participation ensures better results not only for them but for the entire community. Our work provides a platform for children to cultivate, amplify and have their voices heard through platforms like children and youth clubs, child parliaments and peace clubs.

Gender-based violence is a major global public health and human rights issue. AHADI, a World Vision project, is tackling this problem in Tanzania.

Learn how play-based learning, especially for conflict-affected children, can be an ideal learning approach to foster children's literacy and peaceful societies.

In Ukraine, psychosocial support is helping displaced and traumatized children cope with the trauma of violent conflict.

What is Bill S-211? Why is it key in fighting child labour across the world? Learn more about what Canada is doing to fight child labour—and how you can help.

Women are often left behind in disaster responses. Here’s how gender equality can be at the centre of earthquake recovery in Turkiye and Syria.

How do you cultivate a culture of positive masculinity around the world? Learn more about how to redefine what it means to be a man from the MenCare approach.

What is child labour and what is Canada doing about it? Get the facts on what causes child labour, the global supply chain and what you can do to help stop it.

Learn more about key facts, causes and effects of climate change, and ongoing solutions to climate crisis.

Learn what is happening in Sudan, how children are being affected, and what World Vision is doing.

World Vision Canada’s CEO Michael Messenger reflects on a conversation with Therese Mounkoro, a community leader fighting against child marriage in Mali.

From mental health to child protection, here is why the Türkiye-Syria earthquakes are a crisis on top of another crisis.

Climate refugees – or climate migrants – grow in number each year. While we all experience the effects of climate change, some groups suffer disproportionately. These include women and children in the most vulnerable regions in the world. Here’s how to help.

How does healthy masculinity help further gender equality? World Vision’s MenCare program has answers—and evidence for how communities benefit.

What does it mean to give mental health support during a conflict? Michael Messenger speaks with Melinda, an emergency psychologist on the border of Romania.

For the first time, many Ukrainians are celebrating Easter away from home for the first time. They share their memories of Easter from their home country.

Afghanistan’s humanitarian disaster is staggering in both scope and scale. By early 2022, more than half the country’s people – 24.4 million in total – were in dire need. Ninety-five per cent of all Afghans lacked enough to eat, with women and children most cruelly affected.

Poverty remains a serious threat to the lives and well-being of people globally. This article discusses the main causes of poverty plaguing the world today.

Romeo Dallaire talks about his lifelong mission to rally the global community to stop the recruitment and abuse of tens of thousands of children in armed conflicts around the world.

International development assistance is the deployment of resources to economically-disadvantaged areas to reduce and eliminate the root causes and effects of poverty.